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<h2 class="heading2">Installing Applications</h2>
<p class="bodytext">To enhance your web site with valuable features, such as guest books, forums, hit counters, photo galleries, and e-commerce solutions, you can install the respective applications from Plesk Application Vault (<strong class="specialbold">Home <strong class="specialbold">&gt; Web Applications</strong></strong>). The number and variety of available applications depend on your provider's policy and your hosting plan.</p>
<p class="procedureheading">To install an application on your site:</p>
<ol class="procedurelistnumber"><li class="procedurelistnumber">On your home page, click <strong class="specialbold">Web Applications</strong>. <p class="listcontinue">A list of applications installed on your site will be displayed. </p>
</li><li class="procedurelistnumber">Click <strong class="specialbold">Add New Application</strong> icon in the <strong class="specialbold">Tools</strong> group.</li><li class="procedurelistnumber">In the left menu, select a category to which the application you need belongs.</li><li class="procedurelistnumber">Select the required application in the list, and then click <img src="24019.gif" alt="" height="16" width="16" vspace="0" hspace="0" align="bottom" border="0"> <strong class="specialbold">Install</strong>.</li><li class="procedurelistnumber">Some applications will display a license agreement. Read the license agreement carefully, and if you agree with it, select the <strong class="specialbold">I agree</strong> check box and click <strong class="specialbold">Next &gt;&gt;</strong>.</li><li class="procedurelistnumber">Specify whether you wish to create a hyperlink to the application and place it in the control panel.</li><li class="procedurelistnumber">Specify the installation preferences and other information that may be required by the application (the requirements may vary among applications). Click <strong class="specialbold">Install</strong>.</li><li class="procedurelistnumber">If you have chosen to create a hyperlink button inside your Plesk control panel, specify its properties:<ul class="listbullet2"><li class="listbullet2">Type the text that will show on your button in the <strong class="specialbold">Button label</strong> box.</li><li class="listbullet2">Choose the location for your button. To place it in the right frame of your Home page, select the <strong class="specialbold">Domain Administration page</strong> value as the location. To place it in the left frame (navigation pane) of your control panel, select the <strong class="specialbold">Navigation pane</strong> value.   </li><li class="listbullet2">Specify the priority of the button. Plesk will arrange your custom buttons on the control panel in accordance with the priority you define: the lower the number – the higher is priority. Buttons are placed in the left-to-right order.</li><li class="listbullet2">To use an image for a button background, type the path to its location or click <strong class="specialbold">Browse</strong> to browse for the desired file. It is recommended that you use a 16x16 pixels GIF or JPEG image for a button to be placed in the navigation pane, and 32x32 pixels GIF or JPEG image for buttons placed in the main frame.</li><li class="listbullet2">Type the hyperlink to be attached to the button into the <strong class="specialbold">URL box</strong>.</li><li class="listbullet2">Using the check boxes, specify whether to include the data, such as domain id and domain name to be transferred within the URL. These data can be used for processing by external web applications.</li><li class="listbullet2">In the <strong class="specialbold">Context help tip contents</strong> input field, type in the help tip that will be displayed when you hover the mouse pointer over the button.</li><li class="listbullet2">Select the <strong class="specialbold">Open URL in the Control Panel</strong> check box if you wish the destination URL to be opened in the control panel's right frame, otherwise leave this check box unchecked to open the URL in a separate browser window.</li><li class="listbullet2">If you wish to make this button visible to the e-mail users whom you granted access to control panel, select the <strong class="specialbold">Visible to all sub-logins</strong> check box.</li><li class="listbullet2">Click <strong class="specialbold">OK</strong> to complete creation.</li></ul></li></ol><p class="bodytext">Now the application is installed and you can insert a link to this application into the web pages of your site, for example, on your home page. Otherwise, you and your users will have to access this application by typing its URL, which can be long enough to remember.</p>
<p class="bodytext">To access the web interface of an application, do any of the following:</p>
<ul class="listbullet"><li class="listbullet">Type the URL in your browser. For example: http://your-domain.com/forum/.</li><li class="listbullet">Go to <strong class="specialbold">Home <strong class="specialbold">&gt; Web Applications</strong></strong>, and click an icon <img src="17549.gif" alt="" height="16" width="16" vspace="0" hspace="0" align="bottom" border="0">, corresponding to the application.</li><li class="listbullet">If you chose to add a hyperlink button to your Plesk control panel during installation of an application, then on your Home page, click the respective button in the Custom buttons group or navigation pane.</li></ul><p class="bodytext">To reconfigure an application, change the application administrator's password, or to install a license key for a commercial application, go to <strong class="specialbold">Home <strong class="specialbold">&gt; Web Applications</strong></strong>, and click an icon <img src="17548.gif" alt="" height="16" width="16" vspace="0" hspace="0" align="bottom" border="0">, corresponding to the application.</p>
<p class="bodytext">To upgrade an application to a newer version (if it is available on the server), go to <strong class="specialbold">Home <strong class="specialbold">&gt; Web Applications</strong></strong>, and click a corresponding shortcut in the <strong class="specialbold">U</strong> column.</p>
<p class="bodytext">To remove an application, go to <strong class="specialbold">Home <strong class="specialbold">&gt; Web Applications</strong></strong>, and select a check box corresponding to the application that you no longer need. Then click <img src="16330.gif" alt="Remove selected icon." height="16" width="16" vspace="0" hspace="0" align="bottom" border="0"> <strong class="specialbold">Remove Selected</strong>. The application and its databases will be removed from the server.</p>
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<p class="relatedheading">In this section:</p><p class="relateditem"><a href="24977.htm" target="_self">Installing Java Web Applications</a></p><p class="relateditem"><a href="37443.htm" target="_self">Installing Ruby Web Applications</a></p></td>
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